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Manuscript, Thirurangadi, 1920,
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APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Manuscript, Thirurangadi, 1920, (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3930
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Manuscript, Thirurangadi, 1920”,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3930
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Manuscript, Thirurangadi, 1920,, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3930
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_09
- Date
- 1379 H.
- 1920
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala State, Malappuram district, Thirurangadi
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Famous centre of Presses and Pritning activities in Malabar after Ponnai and Thallichery
- Present Location
- Collection of Abdrurahman Managadu
- Language
- Arabi-Malayalam
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Khayrāt al-Muslimīn yenna Tafsīr Ayirikkum / خيرات المسلمين ين تفسير ايركم
- Type of text
- Quranic sciences
- Nature of the Text
- Tafsīr
- Script
- Other
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 20 x 10 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 16
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - slight top serif
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - inclined to left
Descenders
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long thick angular oblique tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
- Short bowl on baseline
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke with initial angle raised over baseline
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened ascending bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- medial swollen double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- final one-eyed with long backward stroke
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- asymmetrical inverted triangle open eye
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- thick stroke
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- This script is characterised by a thick horizontal ductus and short compact strokes